Despite thinking you might know everything, Legrand takes the reader on an explosive journey as you slowly start to unravel what really happened.Īt over 500 pages, Furyborn is an epic tome yet I was surprised at how captivating and uncomplicated it was for such a lengthy fantasy novel. When we meet Eliana, she is at the start of her story, with no idea of what awaits her. The story begins at the end of Rielle’s story, only to take readers back to the very beginning, ever conscious of the tragedy that awaits. Told in alternating chapters as we switch between the stories of Rielle and Eliana, Furyborn kept me up for far too many nights as I devoured just one more chapter. Her life is changed forever when her mother is abducted and the mysterious figure The Wolf convinces her to join him in looking for her. One thousand years later, Eliana Ferracora is a bounty hunter, working on behalf of the Empire to eradicate the rebel Red Crown. To prove her worth and save her life, Rielle is forced to undergo a series of trials that may yet kill her in the meantime.

Such power can only mean one of two things, that she is a prophesied queen of great good or of great evil. When Audric is the target of an assassination attempt, Rielle rushes to his defence and exposes to the world her unique and formidable magical powers. Rielle Dardenne has grown up with her best friend Prince Audric and his betrothed Lady Ludivine. Claire Legrand writes powerful, complex female characters and Furyborn features two strong protagonists.

More often than not, those plots focus on love interests and the ever-present love triangle, rather than exploring the magical worlds that the authors work so hard to create.įuryborn is different. Too often, young adult fantasies feature rushed and weak storylines, with authors drawing out plots so that they can turn a single story into a trilogy. Furyborn, the first in the series, is everything that young adult fantasy stopped being ages ago. I haven’t read a good young adult fantasy novel in ages, except for Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone, but then I read (and loved) Claire Legrand’s Sawkill Girls and knew that the next logical choice had to be her epic fantasy Empirium series.

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